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Michael Pin-Chuan Lin; Daniel H. Chang; Philip H. Winne – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2025
A chatbot is artificial intelligence software that converses with a user in natural language. It can be instrumental in mitigating teaching workloads by coaching or answering student inquiries. To understand student-chatbot interactions, this study is engineered to optimize student learning experience and instructional design. In this study, we…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Man Machine Systems, Computer Mediated Communication
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Haymes, Tom – Current Issues in Education, 2020
Productive "Third Spaces" are often an afterthought when designing learning environments, both in a physical sense and online. These areas, properly mediated by technology and designed around humans, can often be a key facilitator for student success. The STAC Model is designed to provide a framework for understanding what makes these…
Descriptors: Models, Informal Education, Instructional Design, Technology Uses in Education
Yacci, Michael – Educational Technology, 2000
Provides a structural definition of interactivity in instruction, with the goal of describing and delimiting a broad and general process. Examines the four major attributes to the concept of interactivity, and defines four additional variables that arise through the structural study of interaction. Outlines five common patterns that deal with…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Distance Education, Instructional Design
Ravenscroft, Andrew – 2002
A number of projects over the past decade, in a range of educational contexts, have sought to link forms and patterns of communicative interaction to improvements in knowledge, conceptual understanding and reasoning skills. These initiatives have produced dialog models, methodologies for developing these in ways that lead to the design of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Computer Mediated Communication, Distance Education
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Ahern, Terence C.; Repman, Judi – Journal of Research on Computing in Education, 1994
Discusses uses of technology in distance education and describes a study of college graduate students that illustrated the effects of two different instructional delivery technologies on the nature of interaction in online education systems: one used a synchronous video link-up and one used an asynchronous computer-mediated communication system.…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Distance Education, Educational Technology
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers